Utilities like Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric have been hesitant to invest in new geothermal plants, which produce climate-friendly electricity around the clock but are ...

Steam travels through insulated pipes connecting the geothermal power plants at the Calpine geothermal facility at The Geysers. The City of Sonoma has become the first jurisdiction to sign on for ...

A once-overlooked technology that taps into the Earth's heat to generate electricity could supply up to 20% of the ...

In contrast, conventional geothermal power plants capture steam from natural underground hot springs in places such as Iceland or the Geysers in Northern California. These require a rare ...

Geothermal energy currently provides less than half of a percent of the nation’s power, but experts believe that it could produce as much as 5 percent of the electricity supply using existing ...

The southeast tip of California's Salton Sea is home to 11 geothermal power plants that turn hot volcanic brine into clean electricity. The Salton Sea region has one of the world’s largest known ...

But many scientists and environmental advocates believe this step is unnecessary — and that the state would succeed in providing ample power and attaining its goals without keeping such plants open.

California's power grid at "elevated risk" in the coming years, according to a reliability assessment.

Four years ago, California’s power grid was so strained by a heat wave that rolling blackouts hit hundreds of thousands of residents over two days. It nearly happened again two years ago, when ...

CalEthos is a sustainable data center developer based out of Tustin, California. It is currently developing its data center ...

A pilot project from a team of oil industry veterans could save one of California’s key clean energy resources from terminal decline. On Thursday, the Oklahoma City-based GreenFire Energy ...

Advanced geothermal power could supply nearly two-thirds of new data center demand by 2030, according to an analysis by the Rhodium Group.